UPDATE: 2:30 p.m.: The Indian athlete who failed a dope test has been identified as Rani Yadav. Ms. Yadav, who came sixth in the women’s 20-kilometer road race-walk event held on Saturday, failed the doping test for a banned steroid and has been provisionally suspended from the Games, the Games News Service said Wednesday afternoon, citing the Commonwealth Games Federation.

Ms. Yadav “will attend, or be represented, at a provisional hearing before the CGF Federation Court later Wednesday,” the report added.

Ms. Yadav couldn’t be reached immediately for comment.

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The Indian track-and-field athlete is the third person to test positive, a Commonwealth Games official said Wednesday.

Games Federation president Michael Fennell said the body couldn’t disclose the name of the athlete because while the results of the dope test had been sent to India’s chef de mission, the athlete in question had not yet been informed.

“We have collected just over 1300 samples up to yesterday. I regret to inform you that we have another positive result,” said Mr. Fennell, “We are not able to tell you the name of the athlete but we can tell you it is in the sport of athletics and the country is India…We will inform you later today.”

Indians must be crossing their fingers that it won’t turn out to be one of their track-and-field medal winners – such as the three women who swept the discus throw event on Monday, the team who won the 4X400m relay on Tuesday or the bronze winner in the women’s 10,000m run Friday.

Earlier Nigerian Osayomi Oladumola was stripped of her gold for the women’s 100m after she tested positive on both an initial and a follow-up dope test. Another Nigerian runner, Samuel Okon, also tested positive and is now awaiting the results of a follow-up test.

It’s glum news for India, which has done well at the athletics this Games with Indian women sweeping discus. On Tuesday, a team of Indian women won gold in the 4X400m relay.

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